Today I installed and tested Fedora Server 23. This version of Fedora comes with cockpit, which are a web-interface for server monitoring. I have mostly used CentOS up to now, but Fedora looks more interesting for the reasons I will mention below. To add my CentOS servers to the Cockpit monitoring, I need to install Cockpit on them as well. Setting up …

Shell script for backing up MySQL database. I am running this on a Centos 7 DB-server with MariaDB, but should work on most OS and MySQL installations. This is only an example, and the script is without any warranty. Create a .sh file Edit the .sh file The basics Delete old backups in folder: Where +3 is number of days. …